Body tension. Your heart beatin.
I can create scenarios
that never even existed.
Clench their jaws, grind their teeth.
Feels like wait it.
Feels like drowning.
Anxiety nation.
They didn't have a name.
They didn't have any understanding around it.
For me, it was just my personal.
It's just who I was as a
character and as a person.
There are times that my anxiety becomes
overwhelming and it triggers my depression.
So it will then at that point need to
take medication so that I can, you know,
kind of reduce the the symptoms.
I realized real quick that I
couldn't separate from the mons.
Long enough that I could get sk,
or I could calm down long enough
I want to be able to turn him o.
But I want him to be controlled.
I want him to be.
Managed and then be able to turn him off
and put him in his little box. Combined
methods of treatment tend to bee
effective in managing anxiety. All the
literature would say that the bt
treatment for all psychiatric conditions,
but particularly depression and anxiety,
is the combination of therapy
with medication, deep breathing,
things like exercise,
things like meditation, they'rel
options to help decrease your anxiety.
But you shouldn't just do it
because someone tells you to do.
You should try it out,
see if you like it.
See if it works for you.
Has meditation helped manage
your anxiety specifically?
And has meditation helped manage stress?
I was very resistant to pursue
medication as an option.
That that goes for talk therapy as well.
But. I've come to lean on both
of those tools in addition
to my meditation practice.
To submit. Support my my
healing and just taking care of myself.
Some treatments more than others
can help rewire your brain.
This idea of neuroplasticity tht
we hear so much about that just
using my mind in a certain way.
Can actually change how the bran
functions, and also physically
how they're how the brain is.
There's a natural progression
of treatment meds.
Mine opponents cognitive behavi,
and then what happened to drive
me to Kadamai is that I wasn't
able to turn off the triggers.
I could start seeing that they were coming,
but I couldn't stop them.
So now I recognize what
happens after the fact.
I recognize some of the trigger.
Studies have shown that repeated
ketamine infusions are beneficin
reducing depression symptoms, tt
they're awake, they're just in this sort of.
It's associated space sort of having that.
It's not a true psychedelic,
but it's a psychedelic like experience.
I would watch what happened to me in my
trauma event through multiple albums.
And then basically at the end,
I would see that OK. In the end,
the only thing that mattered.
Is how I responded to it then ad
after and that I made it out sa.
And when you've got a traditionl
treatment such as SSRIs or Snrir
Tricyclics that you know your first line
therapy has about a 33% success rate.
Ketamine most of the research
shows a 70 to 80% success rate.
Coping skills are really like hobbies
and they're not something where you can
one size fit all everybody medication can
have really amazing results and anxiety.
But at the same time,
I often tell people, well,
of course you still have the worries.
Of course you still have the triggers.
Of course there are things still
going on in your mind that
medication's not going to wipe .
Not every person is going to
feel everything and not every
person is going to feel anythin.
It's just understanding.
What does it look like for you?
And then what is it that I needo
do to get to a point where I haa
better management of this diagn?
I don't believe you can ever get rid of him.
No matter what treatment you do,
there is no way to completely. Bridge.
What your old memories were before to
now and skip all the things in between.
The struggles we call it.
What. What crosses we bear also
makes us who we are today.